Title The Drug War in Latin America : Hegemony and Global Capitalism

Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (191 pages) Series Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy Routledge studies in US foreign policy. Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Introduction -- The limitations of traditional approaches to U.S. foreign drug policy -- Notes -- 1 Global capitalism, transnational relations, and U.S. foreign policy -- Globalization and U.S. foreign policy -- Globalization and crime -- Transnational elites, hegemony, and policy networks -- Notes -- 2 Capitalist globalization, prohibition, and the U.S. drug war -- Internationalizing prohibitionâ#x80;#x94;the early decades -- World War II to the 1980s The 1980s and drug war escalationThe Andean Initiative and the administration of George H.W. Bush (1989â#x80;#x93;1993) -- Notes -- 3 Plan Colombia and the Mérida Initiativeâ#x80;#x94;waging war to advance capitalist globalization -- Plan Colombia -- Mérida Initiative -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Social conflict, coca eradication, and the transnational elite in Bolivia and Peru -- History of coca production/eradication pre-1980s -- The 1990sâ#x80;#x93;2000s-globalist agenda, multi-lateralism, and resistance Consolidation vs successful resistance to the prohibitionist paradigm: 2006â#x80;#x93;2016Peru and Bolivia in the eyes of U.S. international narcotics drug strategy reports -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Transnational advocacy networks and the drug war -- Transnational advocacy networks and drug policy reform -- UNGASS 2016 and elite drug policy reform groups -- The Open Society and George Soros -- UNGASS 2016 -- Caravans and an â#x80;#x9C;outsiderâ#x80;#x9D; strategy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Global capitalism and policy networks -- Bibliography Summary "Since the mid-1980s subsequent US governments have promoted a highly militarized and prohibitionist drug control approach in Latin America. Despite this strategy the region has seen increasing levels of homicide, displacement and violence. Why did the militarization of U.S. drug war policies in Latin America begin and why has it continued despite its inability to achieve the stated targets? Are such policies simply intended to impose U.S. power or have elites in Latin America internalized this agenda as their own? Why did resistance to this approach emerge in the late-2000s and does this represent a challenge to the prohibitionist agenda? In this book William Avilés argues that if we are to understand and explain the militarization of the drug war in Latin America a 'transnational grand strategy', developed and implemented by networks of elites and state managers operating in a neoliberal, globalized social structure of accumulation, must be considered and examined."--Provided by publisher Notes Print version record Subject Drug traffic -- Economic aspects -- Latin America Drug traffic -- Economic aspects -- United States Drug control -- Latin America Drug control -- United States POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Trade & Tariffs. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Law Enforcement. Diplomatic relations Drug control Drug traffic -- Economic aspects SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- Latin America. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140114 Latin America -- Foreign relations -- United States. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074894 Subject Latin America United States Form Electronic book ISBN 9781315456676 1315456672

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